The image of the state of nature has played an important role in political philosophy, international relations, and practical politics for the last several centuries. As the basis of social contract ...

Political theory and political philosophy are disciplines that interrogate the fundamental principles underlying political life, ranging from the nature and legitimacy of power to the evaluation of ...

In this talk, Samir Gandesha discusses scenes from a traumatic history of political theory. Ranging from Aristotle to Hobbes, Freud to Heidegger, Adorno to Kuhn, he traces how fears originating in ...

All science, wrote Marx, “would be superfluous if the appearance, the form, and the nature of things were wholly identical.” (Vol. II, p. 951) Marxian science separates the essential production ...

Philosopher Charles W. Mills has died at 70. He upended the canon of Western philosophy, calling out the whiteness in the discipline and adding the dimension of race to dominant liberal frameworks.